[NOTE: The UMD Library copy of this video, VC 4651, from the University of Indiana has a false start at the beginning. The actual video starts a couple of minutes after the blank section which follows the false start.]

"The startle reflex provides a revealing model for examining
the ways in which evolved neurophysiology shapes personal
experience and patterns of recurrent social interaction. In
the most diverse cultural contexts, in societies widely separated
by time and space, the inescapable physiology of the reflex
both shapes the experience of startle and biases the social
usages to which the reflex is put. This book describes ways
in which the startle reflex is experienced, culturally elaborated,
and socially used in a wide variety of times and places. It
offers explanations both for the patterned commonalities found
across cultural settings and for the differences engendered
by diverse social environments. Boo! will intrigue readers
in fields such as psychological anthropology, medical anthropology,
general cultural anthropology, social psychology, cross-cultural
psychiatry, evolutionary psychology, and human ethology.

Winzeler, Robert L. Latah in Southeast Asia: The History and Ethnography of a Culture-bound Syndrome. (Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology) Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1995.